While the opening day of the 44Cup Cascais saw the rare occurrence of one boat - Nico Poons' Charisma - winning all three races, on Day Two it was back to the 44Cup ‘norm’ with lead changes and three different winners. Charisma performed consistently enough to maintain her lead at the half way stage, with a four point advantage over Igor Lah's Ceeref, the day's overall winner - despite an 11th hour tactician change with British two time 470 World Champion Nic Asher flying in at short notice to stand in on tactics for Adrian Stead.
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